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Fedora 21 2015-7942 Critical GnuTLS Security Update Addressing Issues

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An essential Fedora 21 security notice regarding the gnutls update to version 3.3.15, rectifying major security flaws.
updated to 3.3.15 (#1218426,#1218513)

Summary

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS

protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language

application programming interface (API) to access the secure communications

protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12, OpenPGP and

other required structures.

Update Information:

updated to 3.3.15 (#1218426,#1218513)

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Change Log

* Mon May 4 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos - 3.3.15-1 - updated to 3.3.15 (#1218426,#1218513) * Mon Mar 30 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.14-1 - new upstream release - improved BER decoding of PKCS #12 structures (#1131461) * Thu Feb 26 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.13-1 - new upstream release - Make build verbose - Use %license * Mon Jan 19 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.12-1 - new upstream release * Mon Jan 5 2015 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.11-2 - enabled guile bindings (#1177847) * Thu Dec 11 2014 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 3.3.11-1 - new upstream release

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1218426 - gnutls: MD5-based ServerKeyExchange signature accepted by default (GNUTLS-SA-2015-2) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218426

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnutls' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: gnutls
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.3.15
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.gnutls.org/
Summary: A TLS protocol implementation

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